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FDXLAG
It is equal to 22 days times 6 hours. Our flight days are generally six hours. So yes it is closer to number 2 than number 1 in your example above.
Yes the number of slots are reduced. We bid for vacation slots by seniority, normally a week at a time. You must be real senior to hold a week in December. Pretty easy to slide forward and backward a week each way.
If your senior you can also bid a block of 2 weeks and really expand your days off as stated by OHab. Also you cannot slide vacation in Dec. back into Nov. and Jan. back into Dec.